Life and the Conditions of Survival: The Physical Basis of Ethics, Sociology and ReligionC.H. Kerr, 1895 - 447 páginas |
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... Building , was a veritable history of man in the things which he had created . From the rude stone implements of a barbaric age , up to the time of polished stone and copper , and on again to the finest mechan- isms of our own wonderful ...
... Building , was a veritable history of man in the things which he had created . From the rude stone implements of a barbaric age , up to the time of polished stone and copper , and on again to the finest mechan- isms of our own wonderful ...
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... building material , nor does it become the most fruit- ful soil under the slow attrition of the elements . Its unyielding nature dooms it to stand in lonely isola- tion , a monumental reminder of a primeval stage of evolutionary ...
... building material , nor does it become the most fruit- ful soil under the slow attrition of the elements . Its unyielding nature dooms it to stand in lonely isola- tion , a monumental reminder of a primeval stage of evolutionary ...
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... build a bridge of snow and ice , fifteen miles in diameter , from the earth to the moon , and could keep it intact until completed , and should then suddenly concentrate the sun's total radiation upon it , the entire mass would vanish ...
... build a bridge of snow and ice , fifteen miles in diameter , from the earth to the moon , and could keep it intact until completed , and should then suddenly concentrate the sun's total radiation upon it , the entire mass would vanish ...
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... buildings melted before such a fire as Chicago witnessed , and more readily because many had been so imprudent as to put mansard roofs over their houses , so the strong- est constitution is swept down by germs that are mul- tiplied in ...
... buildings melted before such a fire as Chicago witnessed , and more readily because many had been so imprudent as to put mansard roofs over their houses , so the strong- est constitution is swept down by germs that are mul- tiplied in ...
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... building a fire upon it . This is an illustration of the heat absorbed and made latent in thawing ice . And we know that when the contents of a kettle are at boiling heat throughout ( say 212 F. ) a great deal of heat is still necessary ...
... building a fire upon it . This is an illustration of the heat absorbed and made latent in thawing ice . And we know that when the contents of a kettle are at boiling heat throughout ( say 212 F. ) a great deal of heat is still necessary ...
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Página 323 - Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning, to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out.
Página 238 - But human creatures' lives ! Stitch, stitch, stitch, In poverty, hunger, and dirt. Sewing at once, with a double thread A shroud as well as a shirt ! But why do I talk of Death ? That phantom of grisly bone ? I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep ; Oh, God!
Página 238 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread, — Stitch! stitch! stitch! In poverty, hunger and dirt; And still with a voice of dolorous pitch — Would that its tone could reach the rich ! — She sang the
Página 250 - There with a light and easy motion, The fan-coral sweeps through the clear deep sea; And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea: And life, in rare and beautiful forms, Is sporting amid those bowers of stone, And is safe when the wrathful spirit of storms Has made the top of the wave his own...
Página 238 - Seam, and gusset, and band, Band, and gusset, and seam, Till over the buttons I fall asleep, And sew them on in a dream! "O! Men, with Sisters dear! O! Men! with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures
Página 354 - That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Página 323 - Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.
Página 319 - ... individual case. In the main, however, all expert opinion would agree that abrupt acquisition of the new habit is the best way, if there be a real possibility of carrying it out. We must be careful not to give the will so stiff a task as to insure its defeat at the very outset; but, provided one can stand it, a sharp period of suffering, and then a free time, is the best thing to aim at...
Página 319 - The peculiarity of the moral habits, contradistinguishing them from the intellectual acquisitions, is the presence of two hostile powers, one to be gradually raised into the ascendant over the other. It is necessary, above all things, in such a situation, never to lose a battle. Every gain on the wrong side undoes the effect of many conquests on the right.
Página 353 - Oh, yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood; That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be...